[Me&MyE]

Originally Posted by evoate

I have 16,000+ miles on my 05 elise, I just had the 15,000 service last month. Three weeks ago I was on the last mile of my 23 mile commute, beautyful day and all of a sudden I smelled oil. I thought it was coming from the car in front of me but then I looked in the rear view mirror and saw that I was leaving a tire track of oil behind me. I stopped immediately, and saw that the whole left side of the car was covered in oil and a gusher was coming from the left front oil cooler. I was in a dangerous spot on the highway,no oil pressure light had come on so I restarted the car and drove about a block to a safer spot. I called the nearest dealer (40 miles away) and told them I was geting a flatbed to bring my car to them. Fortunately I have the AAA membership with 200 miles of free towing.

The next day the dealer got to the car and told me the connection from the oil cooler hose had come apart. No, this wasn't a leak,but the hose physically separated (the fitting was on the oil cooler but the hose detached from the fitting-defective part). The dealer told me the part had to be shipped from England, he then asked me to pay for the air shipment charges or it would take three weeks to get the part. Now wait a minute, its a defective part, if I want it fixed realtively quickly I would have to pay for the shipping! I paid for the shipping and got the car back in 7 days. The failure of the hose bathed the front tire and left front brake with oil, the fortunate thing was I was going in a straight line when it happened. Through all of this, no mention of a rental car, any type of remuneration for the towing etc. I am very diappointed with both the dealer's and Lotus itself for the way this was handled.

Has anyone else had a hose failure like this? How was it handled by lotus?
I suggested to the dealer to dump the computer to check to see if the engine ever hit low oil pressure during the oil cooler disaster. He didn't do it.

I had the exact same problem http://www.elisetalk.com/forums/show...ne+replacement